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What made you want to give The Impossible Knife Of Memory its title?
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Memory is often viewed through rose-colored glasses as a nostalgic reminder of simpler, happier times. But traumatic memories can cause tremendous damage and illness.... that's the kind of memory that I wanted to explore both in the novel and in the title.
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